Queens pervert busted again

A pervert on probation after coercing his wife into posing for nude pictures - and then posting them on the Internet along with an invitation to rapists - was again busted for doing the same thing.

Thomas Gillen, a college recruiter from Rockaway Park, was caught at the Asleep Inn in Chambersburg, Pa., by state police there. They were alerted to Gillen's latest Internet activity by the Queens district attorney's office.

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"He has a fetish, so the plan was to keep checking the sites he liked [to post on] to make sure he was meeting his probation," a law enforcement source said Wednesday. "And sure enough, he couldn't stay away."

Gillen lucked out when he was arrested in 2006 - sexual abuse laws didn't really cover the hell he put his estranged wife through and, sources said, she was afraid to testify against him. He was pretending to be his wife when he posted her nude photos, and solicited men online to join her in a "rape fantasy." Several sickos actually showed up at the woman's job hoping to fulfill the fantasy.

Gillen pleaded guilty to felony identify theft and was sentenced to five years' probation last September for his sickening scheme. But rather than take advantage of a second chance, he skipped probation meetings, bailed on a sex offender class and fled.

By blowing probation, Gillen now faces up to four years in prison - and his estranged wife will not have to testify. Investigators believe Gillen was already back to his old tricks of trying to con women into posing for his Internet fantasies.

Gillen convinced one California woman he met online that he was a ship's captain who took a leave of absence to work for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential bid - at the request of none other than Caroline Kennedy, a source said. He allegedly concocted the tale to persuade the woman to meet him in Maryland.

Investigators warned the woman she was in danger while police in California, Pennsylvania and Maryland hunted for Gillen, a probation source said.